Are you one of the ZX Next kickstarter backers? I am looking forward to getting my "board only" Next, and in preparation I have been working on adding the ZX Next web-based emulation to the IDE. You can see some of my progress over on Bluesky. I reached out to one of the Next folks, I am hoping they allow me to keep it live ...

If you missed my video about all the other latest Retro IDE updates, you can catch it here:

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Also, welcome to all the lovely folks who joined us in the Retro Game Coders channel on the Retro Software Discord server:

-- Chris

Here are the latest articles from the blog

​Commodore 64 BASIC Dungeon Crawler (C64 BASIC Part 7)​

A procedurally generated dungeon game with, collisions and a teleport escape hatch, all in plain C64 BASIC code that you can actually read and follow.

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​If I designed a Commodore Phone​

what I would do if I was speccing a Commodore phone today in 2026, and why

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​ASCII Dungeon Tiles on Amiga and Atari ST (C Programming)​

In this part of the series we look at how Atari St and Amiga handles ASCII text and we create a hard-coded dungeon in C.

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​Retro C Versus BASIC: Squeezing Games into 8-bit Machines​

It's weird but sometimes BASIC beats C, in ways you might not expect!

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​C64IDE: Powerful, Free Mac Commodore 64 IDE Review​

C64IDE is a superb Commodore 64 IDE by Thomas Knox, and the surprising part is that it is Mac-only.

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​Trimui Smart Pro S Review: Amazing $100 Retro Widescreen Handheld​

Trimui Smart Pro S TG5050 is the successor to the highly rated TG5040 handheld retro games console. Let's see how it compares to the R36S.

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​Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy’s One-Liner Can Still Teach Us​

What can we learn from 8bitguy's version of the famous C64 BASIC random maze ...?

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​C64 BASIC: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”​

Explanation of how to create an Ultima-style map view turns into an adventure in C64 BASIC optimisation

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​Programming the Amiga and Atari ST in C: Counter Loops and Game Ticks​

Time to investigate how loops work in C as we develop a game for the ST and Amiga

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​Programming the Amiga and Atari ST in C: Hello World with VBCC​

Now my retro programming IDE has Atari ST and Amiga VBCC compiler support, I figured it was time to return to the programming in C tutorials for these systems.

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